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‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ & ‘Go Go Tales’ out tomorrow

kvdb — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:30:26 +0000

Two worthy films hit French screens tomorrow. Based on John Le Carré’s bestselling 1974 novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (La Taupe) is a brilliant thriller by director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) and nominated for 3 Oscars. It stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, a career spy for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service who finds himself at the centre of a deadly international spy game. And out of the archives, Indie fave Abel Ferrara’s 2007 film Go Go Tales finally scores a release here. This screwball comedy is set in a downtown Manhattan cabaret and stars Willem Dafoe as the charismatic cabaret impresario Ray Ruby whose club Paradise is a factory of dreams for young dancers. The stellar cast also boasts Bob Hoskins as The Baron, Mattew Modine as Johnie Ruby, Asia Argento as Monroe and Lou Doillon as French.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Official Trailer… par Eklecty-City

Go Go Tales Bande annonce du film par LE-PETIT-BULLETIN

Detachment out today

kvdb — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:45:43 +0000

Adrian Brody stars in this grim indictment of the US education system, directed by Tony Kaye (American History X), and with a stellar cast including Christina Hendricks, James Caan, Marcia Gay Harden and Lucy Liu. The film picked up the International Critics Award and the Cartier Revelation Prize at Deauville last year. Brody stars as substitute teacher Henry Barthes, when a new assignment places him at a public school where a frustrated, burned-out administration has created an apathetic student body, he soon becomes a role model to the disaffected youth. Henry then realises that he’s not alone in his life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
www.detachment-film.com/

DETACHMENT : BANDE-ANNONCE HD par baryla

The Artist

kvdb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:57:23 +0000

After dominating the Golden Globes earlier this month with 3 awards, the French, and silent, surprise hit of the year The Artist continues its triumph of the US with ten Oscar nominations (Actor In a Leading Role, Actress In a Supporting Role, Art Direction, Best Picture, Cinematography, Costume Design, Directing, Film Editing, Music, Original Score, Writing, Original Screenplay), falling just behind Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (11 nominations). It’s nevertheless the most nominations a French film has ever held at the Oscars. In case you didn’t know, the film is directed by Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117: Lost in Rio, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) and stars Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, a popular screen star in the silent film era who with fellow actor Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) finds their careers and their relationship influenced by the coming of talking pictures. Valentin resists the transition to sound, while young Peppy Miller embodies a modern age that is leaving Valentin behind. All will be revealed at the Oscars on the evening of 26 Feb, US time.
http://weinsteinco.com/sites/the-artist/

Hors Pistes 2012

kvdb — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:45:21 +0000

Opening on Friday is the 7th edition of this international festival dedicated to art films. Hors Pistes exists to showcase visual works investigating the world we live in by challenging narrative forms and remapping the borders between film genres (fiction, documentary, essay…). Hors Pistes presents in the cinemas of the Centre Pompidou a program of more than 30 films exploring the new tendencies of contemporary image, and an exhibition with the theme ANIMALS takes place in the exhibition space on the lower floor.
Fri 27 Jan-Sun 12 Feb.

HORS PISTES 2012, Un autre mouvement des images… par centrepompidou

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” out today

kvdb — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:57:28 +0000

David Fincher’s fast-paced Hollywood adaptation (after a first Swedish version back in 2009) of the first novel from Stieg Larsson’s blockbuster ‘Millennium Trilogy’ hits French screens today. UK hunk Daniel Craig plays Mikael Blomkvist, and almost unknown Rooney Mara shines as Lisbeth Salander, his side-kick and the tattooed star of this edge-of-the-seat thriller.
www.dragontattoo.net/

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Official… par Eklecty-City

‘Last Night at the Chelsea Hotel’ by André

kvdb — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:01:44 +0000

After his collab with luxe shoemakers JM Weston on ‘The Shoe’ which launched on Nowness last June, watch André’s new short ‘Last Night at the Chelsea Hotel’ which explores Manhattan celluloid clichés and stars French actor Melvil Poupaud and the director’s GF Annabelle Dexter Jones (incidently, you can see the trio splashed across the cover of the first issue [Sep 11] with André as AD of quarterly Paris men’s mag L’Officiel Hommes).

London Calling at the Forum des Images

kvdb — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:49:31 +0000

The cinema center inside Les Halles, the Forum des Images is currently screening London Calling, a cycle of 100 films portraying multiple celluloid facets of England’s mythic capital (noir, multi-cultural, apocalyptic…), including a special focus on the city’s music culture: Franc Roddam’s ‘Quadrophenia’, Michael Winterbottom’s ’9 Songs’, Nicolas Roeg’s ‘Performance’, but also Tim Burton’s ‘Sweeney Todd’, Hitchcock’s ‘The Lodger’, Stephen Frear’s ‘Dirty Pretty Things’… Browse the complete programme here. Mike Leigh was in town this past weekend presenting a masterclass, and other iconic UK creatives Isaac Julien (21-22 Jan) and Hanif Kureishi (21-22 Feb) will participate in the new year.
Until 29 Feb, 2012.
Forum des Images, Porte St-Eustache, Forum des Halles, 1st. M° Châtelet-les-Halles. www.forumdesimages.net

London Calling par forumdesimages

‘Carnage’ & ‘Shame’ out this week

kvdb — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:22:29 +0000

Two worthy films hit screens nationally yesterday: Roman Polanski’s critically acclaimed ‘Carnage‘ premiered at Venice in September, then went on to open the New York Film Festival the following month. Based on acclaimed French playwright Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, it’s a bitterly amusing story of two families who become locked in a showdown after their children are involved in a playground squabble. Shot in real time, the film shines a spotlight on the risible contradictions and grotesque prejudices of four well-heeled American parents.

Also showing is UK artist Steve McQueen’s hotly anticipated second feature ‘Shame’, following his Cannes award winning début in 2008 ‘Hunger’. ‘Shame’ tells the story of Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon’s insular life spirals out of control.

Pictoplasma Paris

kvdb — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:49:29 +0000

The Berlin based Pictoplasma project is acclaimed for its unique focus on contemporary character design and figurative art. The annual festivals in Berlin and NYC have evolved to be the meeting points for an international audience of illustrators, designers, filmmakers and fine and urban artists. Now, the world’s leading festival of contemporary character culture celebrates its premiere in Paris, with the theme “Post Digital Monsters”, and a comprehensive program of installations, exhibition, artist conferences, performances and screenings… Why “Post Digital”? In reference to the fact that character design came to the fore with the rise of digital culture at the beginning of the noughties. The Internet and new technologies have revolutionised image re-interpretation and exchange. “Monsters?” Because the digital era has broken new ground in terms of virtual reality. Now the new territories just have to be peopled with attractive characters! These new icons make us feel we’re being watched by unknown entities from a parallel universe. Okay, so they’re cute, but aren’t they just a little too cute?…
Wed 7-Sat 31 Dec. 2-8pm. Closed Mon.
Gaîté Lyrique, 3 bis rue Papin, 3rd. http://paris.pictoplasma.com/

This week’s film releases

kvdb — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:52:43 +0000

Out today in France, The Black Power Mixtape, a prize-winning documentary produced by Danny Glover which mobilises a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists between 1967-1975 who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them, the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television.

Also worth noting, the surprise hit at Cannes this year Sleeping Beauty, a haunting and provocative Australian film début by Julie Leigh, produced by Jane Campion: ‘You will go to sleep: You will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed.’ Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep….

For Hollywood releases, don’t miss the ‘based on a true story’ drama Moneyball (Le stratège) starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and described as ‘one of the best movies of the year’ by Rolling Stone magazine. Pitt plays the the Oakland A’s general manager who defies conventional wisdom & outsmarts his competition when forced to reinvent his baseball team with bargain players.